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ARTILLERY

Volume 1 · 138 words · 1771 Edition

large fire-arms, with their appurtenances, as cannons, mortars, bombs, petards, muskets, carbines, &c. See CANNON, MORTAR, GUNNERY.

ARTILLERY-park, the place in the rear of both lines in the army, for encamping the artillery, which is drawn up in lines, of which one is formed by the guns; the ammunition-waggons make two or three lines, sixty paces behind the guns, and thirty distant from one another; the pontoons and tumbrils make the last line. The whole is surrounded with a rope which forms the park; the gunners and matroffes encamp on the flanks, and the bombardiers, pontoon-men, and artificers, in the rear.

ARTILLERY-train, a certain number of pieces of ordnance, mounted on carriages, with all their furniture fit for marching.

ARTILLERY-company, a band of infantry, consisting of six hundred men, making part of the militia or city-guard of London.